Apart from college athletics, Jacket was the head coach at the 1992 Summer Olympics for the American women's track and field competitors.

[3] Jacket began her coaching career teaching basketball in Eufaula, Alabama, and Port Arthur, Texas, before joining Prairie View A&M as a swimming instructor in 1964.

[5] Outside of college athletics, Jacket was an assistant coach for the United States women's national track and field team during the 1979 Pan American Games.

[7] Her 1992 Summer Olympics head coach appointment made Jacket the second African-American woman to hold this position for the United States.

[8] Apart from coaching, Jacket was the athletic director for Prairie View A&M from 1990 to 1995 and taught health for the university during the 2000s.